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THE SEMI-WEEKLY EXPRESS.
SAMUEL U. SMITH, Editor and Proprietor
CARTEJISVILLK, HA., NOV. 25, 1870
For the 41st and 42nd Congress from
the 7th Congressional District of Ga.,
GEN. P. mTIb. YOUNG,
Os Bartow County.
;for i£Uj>rc*tntßtib»s to tit ‘Legislature,
JOHN W, WOFFORD.
JOHN r
for Sheriff, WM. W. RICH.
Ueputjj S&frfff, JAS. KENNEDY,
jFor Clerk, ANDREW 11. RICK.
jTor ©ax fteceiber, W, T. GORDON.
©ax Collector, ZAOU M’REYNOLDS
County ©rtasurtr, MILEB A. COLEINS.
Countj .Surbtjor, GEO. W. HILL.
Countg Coroner, BILL ARP.
[Special correspandence of the Express.}
Second Annual Fair of llae Cen
tral Alabama Agricultural and
Mechanical Association.
Selma, Ala., )
Nov. 16th, 1870 )
An Agricultural Fair is anew era in
the history of Selma. It is one step,
and u good one, of an advance march
on the line of progress, which the at
tired circumstances of the country have
rendered necessary. One year ago,
when this association was organized
and held its first Fair, very few re
garded if favorably, or at least extend
ed it material assistance. It depended
for success upon so many contingen
cies, and the condition of those to
whom it might reasonably have look
ed for countenance and support, was
so crippled, that its future was by no
means hopeful. In addition to these
unfavorable aspects, was the fact that
the country in whose interests it was
enlisted was devoted exclusively to
the production of one article, and
hence the varied competion and emu
lation incident to a diversified agricul
ture, and which are the life of such as
sociations, were comparatively denied
it as incentives. These considerations,
however, did not damp the energies of
its originator's. Splendid grounds were
purchased, respectable buildings and
other accomodations were provided,
and the first fair held a year ago, with
a degree of success that gave fine
promise of the future.
The Fair which has just closed,
though really not as superior as I ex
pected and perdicted, was yet an im
provement on the first one, and but
for the groundless reports which were
in circulation to the effect that yellow
fever was raging here, I doubt not its
success would have been commensu
*
rate with the most sanguine expecta
tions of its best friends. As it is, no
one has cause to be discouraged, It
gave evidence that there was anew
spirit abroad among the planters of
this section, and though that spirit has
not accomplished as much as it might
have done, it showed some good fruit
in their full and regular attendance,
and a disposition to exhibit the fruits
of their industry. That these were
limited both in variety and marked
quality when compared with sections
where every kiud of farming produce
is eztensively cultivated, was to be ex
pected. Hence a comparison between
this and the Bartow County Fair,
would be invidious to the former. —
The same holds good as regards that
portion of the ladies’ department de
voted to preserves, canned fruits, fan
cy needle work, etc.. Herg you were
immeasurably ahead. But in the fine
arts, I think 1 would place this fair by
the side of any county fair South,
with perfect cofidenCe of taking the
highest honors. Most of the paintings
on exhibition, (and the number was
large,) were the productions of young
ladks, graduates of colleges in this
and adjoining counties, and were near
ly all \voijthj T of high praise.
In the department of manufacture,
embracing implements, machinery,
furniture, honse-furnishing goods, etc.,
the display was admirable; but the
principle articles were of foreign man
ufacture, and though the exhibitors
are entitled to credit for their entry
the honor of production properly be
jongs to another quarter.
In the stock 1 ne tl ere is wide room
for improvement. Os Alabama raised
Stock, though some of established and
reputable breeds on exhibition, none
of them I considered as first- class spec
imens. One pair of mules, in every
respsct as fine as one could well wish
to see, stood out alone for excellence.
But they were from Kentucky. I
thought if “Mack,” and several others
that gained such deserved honors on
,the Bartow Cos., track, could have been
here, ,wha| a lively time we would have
.had, and ho*v the dust would have
Been raised m the splendid track of
.this Aef**ia£y^j,
Jliese deficiencies are by no means
discreditable t o this Association. —
Stock-raising and training have never
been followed here. They are literally
‘in their infancy;’ but if the spirit of
imrrovrmenfc and emulation now excit
ed here continues, not many more fairs
will be held before breed, style, speed,
and bottom will become as noted in
this section as elsewhere. , e
I am afraid, however, that horses are \
obtaining, an amount of attention and
influence unduly great in comparison
with the more important questions of
farm inprovement and productive ca
pacity. Theii utility is unquestiona
ble, and their improvement every way
desirable; but I do not by any means
think them entitled to the highest con
sideration as a portion of farm econo
my. It is far more essential to the in
terest of agriculture that the highest
awards of merit should be bestowed
upon the farmer who makes two blades
of grass grow where only one grew be
fore, than upon him who makes one
horse trot a mile in a second less time
than another. It is more to the inter
est of every other pursuit, for all oth
ers are based upon that one. Cities,
states, nations, are wealthy, great, and
commanding in their influences in the
proportion that their rural districts
teem with the golden, life-susta.ning
harvests of the earth.
But lam off the track a little. Os
the proceeds of plantations on exhibi
tion, the great staple was the principle
thing for competition. The collection
of small articles were neither in varie
ty nor quality of a character to merit
more than usual attention. This arris
ses from the fact that everything is
subordinated to cotton, many, if not a
majority of planters looking to that ar
ticle to furnish them with supplies from
Western markets, which their own
plantations should produce. The
amount of money drained from this
section yearly by this course is start
ling. It is impolitic, even if a paying
price for cotton could, with degree of
certainty, be relied on. It is unwise to
the verge of folly when all know that
the cotton market is so unstable that
for two thirds or three fourths of the
year prices do not exceed the cost of
production, and sometimes indeed are
really under it.
There was one peculiarly interesting
feature of this fair, and that was a
large and well fil ed table in the cause
of the Confedeiate orphans. It was
bountifully supplied, and handsomely
patronized by the citizens. People ate
whether they wanted to or not, appear -
ing glad of such a chance to contribute
to a cause so noble. The table was
under the supervision of the ladies of
the Presbyterian church, with whom, I
believe, it originated, though ladies of
other denominations were active in as
sistance. The net proceeds, over and
above all expenses, exceeded eight hun
dred dollars. A splendid fund for four
days exertion.
The grounds of the association are
as level as yours, and the arrangements
for sight seeing superior. Instead of
a circular range of seats with exhibition
ring within that, they have a half cres
cent on the outside of the main trmk,
and fronting it across the track is the
exhibition ring with music and judges
stand in the center, thus bringiug all
that is going on in full view of the
spectators without giving them the
trouble of changing position. The main
building or exhibition ball is a two sto
ry cross with its extremities equidist
ant from the center, and the center ris
ing to an elevated and commodious
dome, the whole, inside and out pre
senting an ii posing and attractive ap
pearance. The association is compos
ed of energetic business men, keenly
alive to the interest of the city and the
planting community, and its future is
full of promise. That all which they
anticipate may be realized, is the fer
vent wish of every lover of agricultural
advancement. Bartow.
Bgk- Daring the last Legislature, for
ty railroad bills passed both houses, and
received the signature of his Excellency.
JKa5“ A Paris letter, dated November
14, by balloon, reports tbe city quiet j
and perfect order prevails. There are
ample provisions For three months.
a*is°° A especial to r,ne Tribune from
Berlin reports the English and Prus
sian ministers as saying that the dan
ger of a rupture is abating.
9e& m The Times city article intimates
that the restoration of Napoleon is on
the cards.
The great objection to
children is, that when they commenc e
having whiskers they leave off having
brains. Boys that are philosophers at
six years of age, are often blockheads
at twenty one. By forcing the intellect
of children, you get so much into their
heads that they become cracked to
hold it.
What Energy and Courage May
do.
WHAT TWO NEW HAVEN BOYS ARK DOING
AT THE SOUTH.
From the Brunswick Seaport Appeal, Oct 21.
To create is more difficult, and more
ennobling Unm to destroy. Uncon
trolled, the elements of fire and water
often work fearful destruction, and in
animate power and iron directed by
the humau intellect have destroj ed the
labor of centuries in a day.
In our own time aud State—at At
lanta—we have witnessed the destruc
tion, substantially, of thq result of
twenty years anxious labor in 24 hours
—yet, with an erergy unflagging, bas
ed on a faith in the future great desti
ny of the city, which no adverse for
tune could shake or subdue and a
courage which quailed not before any
obstacle interposed, her people set
themselves to work to. accomplish, her
destiny. It required four years of
hard, unremitting, toiling, self sacrifi
cing labor to restore to Atlanta the
business accommodations she enjoyed
before that twenty-four hours’ calami
tous destruction.
It is now something over five years
since the work of restoration began. —
To-day she stands proudly pre-eminent
as the foremost city iu Georgia in all
the essential elements of progress: and
with a firm and steady, and seif-confi
dent trade, she marches mnjstieally on
ward to her high destiny as the Me
tropolis of the South.
But how have these great results
been accomplished ? It is to the con
sideration of this question we would
invite the reader’s attention, as well as
to the character and preformauces of
one of her representativ men.
The great results accomplished are
due to the energy and courage, the faith
and indomitable will, of her. activ# go
ahead prominent citizens —each of
whom is a “keen spirit” who
“Seizes the prompt occasion—makes the
thought
Start into instant action, and at once
Plans and preforms, resolves and executes—
s
each one of whom is, iu fact, almost
the embodiment of the characteristics
named.
Among the new-comers attracted to
Atlanta by its promise of future pros
perity, and the field of it would afford
their almost super-human energy and
towering but honest ambition -nqfc on
ly to amass aud secure fame, but to
accomplish great good in attaining
these —were two brothers of quiet hab
its and retiring, modest deportment.
They were uuobstruscive, compara
tively strangers, without noticeable
qualities, They located in a small
room on the second floor of a building
on one of the most public streets, com
menced business, aud laid the fouda
tiou of a reputation now unequalled in
the South, and probably not surpassed
in the Union for energy industry, bus
iness sagacity and integrity, and un
interupted success.
These two persons were H. I. Kim
ball and bis brother, E. N. Kimball,
co-proprietors, and managers for the
South, of the world-renowned gorgeous
Palace Sleeping Couches of Pulman,
Kimball & liamsay.
Encouraged and emboldened by well
merited success, and seizing “the
prompt occasion” nHonied by the sale
of the unfinished Opt ra House build
ing, they at once entered upon a career
of startling enterprise which has made
the name of 1L I. Kimball a household
word in the South, and given it a un
ion-wide fame. When the purchase
was made in May, 18G8, there was
nothing but the unsightly bare walls,
which, however, were substantially built
three stories high. A contract made
during the summer to have build
ing changed and subdivided into the
apartments suitable for the accommo
dation of every department the
state government, and ready for occu
pancy the ensuing January, was more
than complied with.
The brothers now rested and Watch
ed, and concentrated ther. energies for
yet greater and grander achievements.
* * * * Who tl are# greatly
Great!}' does.
and a mind like the elder Kimball’s
“that claims and seeks ascendency,”
which “mwlertplrt.o by *-«/»«*•'»* ** "' /l1
by chance,” whose courage and energy
are
* * * Seen in great exploits
That justice warrants and that wisdom guides.
could not be long or slow in finding tbe |
oportunity for the employment aud
exercise and of that tremendious ener
gy and brain-power with which he was
endowed. Scarcely had it been made
known that he had concluded for a lib
eral contract for preparing the grouuds j
for, and conducting the State Fair, tbe
present fall, before the additional an- j
nouncement was made that he had
bought the site of the old Atlanta Ho
tel and would proceed at once to erect
the greatest grandest hotel south of
the Potomac, ami have it ready for
guests during the fair. The announce
ment was startling and almost incredi
ble even to Atlanta. But the promise
has been made good.
These great uinlertakings— the com
plete out-fitting, iu the most substan
tial maimer, of the Fair (iron mis, and
the construction of an eleganilv finish
ed and faultlessly furnished hotel, 210
feet front, 165 feet deep, six stories
high, containing 350 rooms, and of ca
pacity for accommodating 1,000 guests,
iu has than seven months’ time, have
been successfully «cc< m[dished; and
the H. I. Kimball Hodsc stands to-day.
a splendid monument to the brilliant
conception and grand constructive ge
nius and combinations, no less than to
the unparalled and untieing energy of
him whose name it deservedly bears.
It is a gratification to know that a
gentleman combining such a rare in
tellectual grasp and tremendous busi
ness energy and power, with such dar
ing enterprise and comprehensive pub
lic spirit is intimatly identified with
the Brunswick and Albany Railway—
an enterprise fraught with interest of
such momentous importance to our
city.
It has been suggested that while the
financial head will continue in New
York, a majority of the board of Di
rectors, or its Executive portion, will
be iu Georgia, and that of this State
Board H- I. Kimball, Esq., will be the
President. As this road is regarded
as a part, or the continuation of the
Grand Southern Pacific, destined to
unite the two greut oceans and the
32d parallel it is not improbable that
Mr. Kimball will be invited to become
the head of that. In that event “the
hour and the mui” will have met, and
the speedy and successful accomplish
ment of that grand enterprise may be
regarded s assured.
The vastness and grandeur of the
work are worthy of the genius of the
man; anil the graud intellectual reach,
exliaustless resources and vast capa
bilities of the man fit him for the work
—designate him as its Chief.
With the weight of only thirty-eight
years on his shoulders, of unblemished
moral character, possessing a sound,
strong, physical constition, of quench
less zeal, great powers of endurance,
and the mental faculties and physical
powers unimpaired by excesses of any
kind it may reasonably be expected he
will survive its completion and live to
manage it for years afterwards. All
honor, renown, succes and prosperity*
say we, to H. I. Kimball; and to all
who, like him, while honorably striving
for their attainment, study, how, at the
same time they may confer great pub
lic benefits, and labor to that end.
During the month of December next
the United States Supreme Court will
be called upon to decide three cases of
more than ordinary interest. The first,
involving the constitutionality of the
cotton tax, which is a question of much
interest to the South, will be argued by
Judge Curtis and Mr. Everett against
the government. The second is also
of interest to a large class of persons
of the Southern States, as involving
the constitutionality of the confiscation
acts passed by Congress during the
war. This case will be argued by
Judges Crutis and Cushing against the
United States. The third comes up
on a w it of error from the State of
Kentucky, and involves the constitu
tionality of the Civil Rights bill, the
case being that of a wli.te man who
was tried in a Uni ed States Court for
the minder of a negro. Judge Black
appears against the Government in this
case, and will contend on behalf of the
appellant that it is unconstitutional to
try the citizen of a State for murder in
a United States Court when the State
Courts are competent to exercise juris
diction in such cases. It is seldom
that three cases of so much importance
appear together upon the docket, and
their decision will be awaited with
more than ordinary interest. —Atlanta
Sun.
The weather for the last few
days has been very disagreeable, mud
in abundance—bad on pedestrians.—
old.Knl Ims shown himself
again, to the gieat satisfaction of ev
erybody, but the prospects for good
weather are gloomy.
To The Citizens of Bartow
County.
■
Cartersville, Ga., I*ov. 14,1870.
At the solicitation of friends, in va
rious parts of the County, I am a can
didate for the office of County Treas
urer, and respectfully ask your sup
port. A. M. FOUTE.
Bgk, Bishop Simpson has declared
in favor of women sufferage.
JW Whit a Colored Woman Thinks
of the Fashions. —Women, you forget
that you are mothers of creation: voa
forget your sons were cut off like grass
bv the war, and the laud was covered
by their blood; you rig yourselves up
in paniers and Grecian bendbacks and
flummeries; yes, and mothers and gray
haired grand-mothers wear high-heel
ed shoes and humps on their heads,
and put them on their babies, and
stuff them out so that they keel over
when the wind blows. 0 mothers! I’m
ashamed of ye ! What will such lives
as you live do for humanity ? When
I saw them women on the stage at the
woman’s Suffrage Convention, the oth
er day, I thought what kind of reforms
be you, with goose wings on your heads,
tvs if you were going to fly, and dressed
in such ridiculous fashion, talking about
reform and women’s lights? Pears
to me you had better reform yourselves
first. But Sojourner is an old body,
and will soon go out of this world into
another, and wants to say when she
gets there, “Lord, I have clone my du
ty; I have told the whole truth and
kept nothing back.”-— Sojourner Truth''s
Speech at the Providence Woman's Rights
Convention.
A Country without G reenbvcks.
—The Overland Monthly tells how the
Mormons manage to get along with
out greenbacks. Hundreds of farmes,
living in reasonably comfortable ciicnm
stances, and having large famlies to
to clothe and educate, will not see a
dollar in money for years. Such a
fanner wishes to purchase a pair of
shojs for his wife. He cot suits the
shoemaker, who avers his willingness
to furnish the same for one load of
wood. He has no wood, but sells a
calf for a quantity of adobes , the adobes
for an order on the merchant, payable
in goods, and the order for a load of
wood, and straightway the matron is
shod. Seven watermelohs purchase a
ticket of admission to the theatre.—
He pays for the tuition of his children
seventy-five cabbages per quarter.—
The dress-maker will receive four
squashes per day. He settles his
church dues in sorghum molases
Two loads of pumpkins pay his annu
al subscription to the newspaper. He
buys a “Treatise on Celestial Marriage’’
for a load of "ravel, and a bottle of
“Soothing Syrup” for the baby for a
bushel of striug beaus. In this primi
tive method, until the railroad was
built, nine-tenths ol the commerce of
the Territory was conducted. And
even now, in the more remote settle
ments, a majority of all transactions
are of this character.
“Where the Wicked Cease from
Troubling.”
We have sometimes thought that if heaven
commences on eaith so does hell, for the
simple reason that we see and hear so many
cases of startling depravity which we can
account for on no other hypothesis than they
are the effect of a diabolical agency. The
idea is neither unreasonable nor impossible.
Satan is represented as the prince of this
world, and certainly in the days of our Sa
viour's incarnation he only assumed as
much. As in heaven there was war for the
mastery between God and the Devil, such is
likewise the case on earth, at least so far as
the feeble rays of human reason can deter
mine. That the great spirit of evil has
myriads of eniissar.es at work, to subvert
the wonderful plan of redemption and win
conquests for hell, the Christian world are
pretty well agreed. That the cause of
Christ and his kingdom will ultimately pre
vail we are not left in doubt by the word of in
spiration, but not until millions of souls have
taken up their abode in those dolorous re
gions of despair “where hope comes to none.”
For if satan drew legions of angels after
him in his fall from heaven, there is little
reason to doubt that his conquests among
men will be far greater. The disciples of
Christ have no greater danger to encounter,
and no more terrible ordeal to pass through
than is brought about by contact with ene
mies to religion, who have willingly and,
worse than all, without reward, sold them
selves to the devil These godless souls
seem to entertain an especial malignity to
those who, believing the Bible, are honest
ly endeavoring to “flee the wrath to come.”
llow many weak and unstable aouls have
been subverted and ruined by having to en
dure the obliquy and reproach heaped upon
them by the avowed enemies of religion ! —
False judgments, sneering remarks, slander
ous reports are the inevitable heritage of
those who would escape from the City of
, . Ts 4l portion of Ad* !
Destruc ion. Ts “ . J * .
am s rstce who will sink deeper in the roll
ing billows of eternal damnation than an
other, it will be that portion who have
thrown causeless impediments in the way
of even the humblest of Christian believers.
Hell will be intensified tenfold by the re
flection that a man Ins dragged others to
the dark abyss. But take hope, humble be
liever, there is a clime where the wicked
trouble not. In the home of the blest we
will have*notbing to fear from sinful asso
ciations. What a blessed portion, to be for
ever freed from the dominions of sin.
J6 }r Stone & Murray’s Circus gave
two exhibitions here yesterday, which
well sustained its reputation as be
ing the best Circus in the country, but
they would n’t give printers free tick
ets—bad sign, this.
ItOHIHTIK’N
Egyptian
||TOCK ffoOD!!
WHAT EVKRY PER.
HOX OUGHT TO KXOIY!
THAT DOUGHTIER E
OYPTIAY STOCK FOOD
Is jnst what the Farmers,
the Stock Raisers, and the
Housekeepers should use
to fatten and preserve the
condition of their Horses,
Hiiles, Cows, Hogs* Sheep,
and Poultry. It has been
tested by thousantls, and
does all the Proprietors
claim for it.
MrScnd for Price Fists,
showing Discount to Deal
ers.
Put up in boxes at sl,and
$2 each, and 5, 10, and 20
pounds. Each box con
tains directions.
A. A. SOFOnOXS and CO.,
Gu,
nov. I—sw3m
Milittert;
AND
DRESS-MIKING
BY MBS. & MISS CRANDALL,
Millncr Uri<-lcl*iiiUliii(C, on
the Corner of Main and Erwin Streets,
Cartersville, Georgia,
Where they will be happy to sec their friends
and patrons. nov. 1-wtf
ITT rtt T orENEi)
Fal JtatU “
IN THE TOWN OF
CARTERSVILLE,
By the Long-Tried
and Never-Flinching old Firm of
HOWARD & ERWIN,
who have on hand,
and Keceiving Weekly,
FIiESH SUPPLIES OF
Staple and Fancy
DRY-GOODS!!!
W&t&f Shoes
AND ETC.
ALSO, BAGGING AND ROPE,
GROCERIES, PRODUCE, Ac.
IN FACT, Everything, nearly, kept In
eantile Line, all Departments, j b j n _
at the lowest possible prices. • extensive
vltc.l to c.U aiullooS I '",™ , V t I YpiEKWI.N,
Establishment. HO”
nov. 11—wtf
